A Rare and Large Chinese Cizhou Truncated MeipingNorthern Song-Jin DynastyOf wide-shouldered compressed form with a waisted neck and flat, everted rim, covered with a white slip and clear glaze, the body painted in brown with two large peonies encircling its entirety, a band of floral sprays around the shoulder between multiple concentric circles, the inverted flat base unglazed. Height 9 inches. Provenance:From a St. Louis, Missouri Collection, prior to 1990 Note:Truncated Cizhou meipings are rare; especially when of large size and with painted decoration. See for example, Christies, New York 16 October 2001, lot 60 (Realized price USD 7050) which is a monochrome and 5 1/4 inches (13.3 cm) high.C Property from the Collection of Steven J. Harvis